MOST NOTABLE STORIES OF THE WEEK

The Chief Commissioner of Railway Safety will probe the Amritsar tragedy in which 60 Dussehra revellers were mowed down by a passing train, the Indian Railways said on Friday, nearly two weeks after it had ruled out any investigation in the tragedy.

The independent ‘Rajyarani Express’ on the Thiruvananthapuram-Nilambur route is going to be a dream come true for commuters who have been waiting for this service for long. The service is expected to start from mid-November.

To bag Indian Railways’ telecom accounts, Reliance Jio Infocomm has emerged as the lowest bidder, leaving behind Airtel and Vodafone. For more than six years now, the only telecom provider for 3.78 lakh mobile phone

Special Tourist Train Sevice – Unity Express: Piyush Goyal-led Indian Railways is running a special train service between Rajkot and Shirdi on 31 October 2018, Wednesday. Called the Unity Express, the special train service will run from Rajkot in Gujarat to Rameshwaram, Madurai, Kanyakumari, Trivendrum, Tirupati, Shirdi and Shani Singnapur.

Research Design and Standards Organization (RDSO) has started testing the East-West Metro — the penultimate inspection before the service can become operational. A 14-member team from RDSO, under the ministry of railways